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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780365403321

Autore

Sklansky Jeffrey P

Titolo

The soul's economy [[electronic resource] ] : market society and selfhood in American thought, 1820-1920 / / Jeffrey Sklansky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908698-4-5

0-8078-6143-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

330.973

Soggetti

Industrial relations - United States - History - 19th century

Industrial relations - United States - History - 20th century

Capitalism - United States - History - 19th century

Capitalism - United States - History - 20th century

Industrialization - United States - History - 19th century

Social classes - United States - History - 19th century

Social classes - United States - History - 20th century

United States Economic conditions To 1865

United States Economic conditions 1865-1918

United States Social conditions To 1865

United States Social conditions 1865-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Political Economy in Revolutionary America; 2. Transcendental Psychology in Antebellum New England; 3. Antebellum Origins of American Sociology; 4. The Postbellum Crisis of Political Economy; 5. The "New Psychology" of the Gilded Age; 6. The Sociological Turn in Progressive Social Science; 7. Corporate Capitalism and the Social Self; Conclusion; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing a seismic shift in American thought, Jeffrey Slansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism.